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Functional Materials: Investigating ways to make traditional prototyping materials sensible and reactive leveraging with computing technologies
Functional Materials: Investigating ways to make traditional prototyping materials sensible and reactive leveraging with computing technologies
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Talyan, Akash
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Oh, HyunJoo
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This thesis presents a fabrication tool-kit developed through material-driven inquiry to make the rigid prototyping materials flexible and augment their sensing capability by combining them with conductive substrate materials. I show how different cutting patterns when applied to rigid prototyping materials such as chipboard, acrylic and wood can create flexible free form surfaces. Adding conductive substrates such as Carbon and Nickel can allow the prototyping material to provide sensing affordances for various tangible interaction design opportunities. I discuss different design parameters to be taken into consideration of the cutting patterns as well as the process that affects the interaction design outcomes. Later, I discuss a co-design workshop with ten designers to explore the creative possibilities using our tool-kit. The findings from the workshop reflect that our design tool-kit supports implementing electronics at the craft level seamlessly, and this empowers designers in exploring tangible interaction design. I conclude this thesis with a discussion on the issues discovered throughout the workshop as well as my own experiment and opportunities for the future work to improve the proposed tool-kit.
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2022-05-03
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